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Forthcoming malayalam movie Winter, is a horror thriller starring Jayaram and Bhavana. The movie is directed by Deepu Karunakaran (Crazy Gopalan fame).

66 posts , 57 comments , 233 Spam Comments. It has been an awesom journey. For the past 12 months, I have been blogging. There has been dormant periods, mostly because I was lazy and sometimes because I was busy. When I started blogging, I was confused on what topic to choose. Once that was resolved, my blog posts have been consistent. But then arose the problem of immaturity. Even after 60+ posts, I still think, I have tackled many topics especially politics ametuerishly. Hopefully, I am improving.

The journey began from an inspirational talk on blogging by Kenney. Kenney chettan is someone who I consider to be my mentor in more ways than one. Though I started this blog independantly, he has helped me all the way to make this blog what it is. There have also been other friends who had given me pointers. Even when I was feeling lazy, Sujithettan was there to motivate me to post more. A BIG ‘ Thank You ‘ to everyone.

Kambakkht Ishq is a mega budgeted comedy flick starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor with some Hollywood stars doing cameos. The movie is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and is directed by first timer Sabbir Khan. The movie is a remake of a hugely succesfull tamil film, PammalK Sambandam, which starred Kamal Hassan.

Synopsis
Viraj Shergil (Akshay Kumar) is a leading stuntman in Hollywood. He doesn’t believe in marraige. When his brother Lucky (Aftab Shivdasani) gets married to his girlfriend Kamini (Amrita Arora), he advices Lucky against marraige. Enter Simrita (Kareena Kapoor) who is a sworn spinster. She too chides Kamini for getting married and tell her men are only interested in women for ‘sex‘. Thus begins the battle of sexes between Simrita and Viraj.

Analysis
The movie’s main USP is its lead stars Akshay and Kareena. The battle of their ideologies form the crux of the script, but the catfight between them is vulgar and offensive. The scene in which Akshay kisses Kareena to stop her bickering or calling each other ‘dog’ and ‘bitch’ or the scene in which Akshay tries to hook Kareena up with a girl since she hates men is simply lousy and cheap.

Like his previous string of comedy movies, Kambakkht Ishq relies heavily on gimmicks to engage the audience. But unlike his previous films, this film is filled with cheap gimmicks which don’t even make you smile. Like the Kareena’s watch ending in Akshay’s stomach after operation or the women flashing at men during the wedding or the fight at the wedding party. The hero bedding numerous women and the following comedies seems repetitive from Heyy Babby. The scene in which Akshay teasing Kareena to be a ‘Virgin‘ when she says she is not interested in men or women is amateurish.

There are some good scenes in the movie but they are few and far apart. The scene in the operation theatre when Akshay realises that Kareena is going to be his surgeon or the introduction scene of Akshay or the awards ceremony scene are some of the better scenes in the movie.

Performance Of The Cast
Akshay Kumar brings nothing new to this role which is just an extension of his playboy roles in Garam Masala and Heyy Babyy. He tries to be dedicatd to his character and the script, but the character is so shodily developed all his efforts goes down the drain. Kareena Kapoor is good in the role of Simrita. She looks hot and beautiful and carries her role with panache. Aftab Shivdasani is alright in his role and Amrita Arora is mediocre. Its high time she realises acting is not all about wearing bikinis. The hollywood actors Brandan Routh, Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards are just there to add a bit of spice. Excellent actors like Boman Irani and Javed Jaffery are wasted.

Technical Analysis
Director Sabbir Khan has resorted to tried and tested gimmicks to reach to the audience. Apart from a few scenes, he fails big time to keep the movie running. Baring a thousand loopholes in the script, the script is still weak and vulnerable and especially in the post interval part, the movie loses steam once it makes the transition to a romantic track. The dialogues of the movie are not funny and are offensive.

Akshay Kumar in a stuntman role. One would certainly expect some good action scenes but has to return dissapointed. The cinematography is excellent. The viewer is treated to some good shots of the Universal Studios and Kodak Theater. The Om Mangalam teack by RDB is excellent and Anu Malik’s music is good which have been choreographed well.

Verdict
The movie is held together by the sheer screen presence of its main leads and nothing else. Leave your brains at home and watch the movie and there is a small chance that you liked it. As for me, I would call this movie ‘unbearable’.

Rating: 2/5

Director Shyamaprasad (Ore Kadal, Akale…) is attempting a different movie, Rithu, which will be a youthfull movie. Scripted by Joshua Newtonn, this movie features a whole lot of youngsters. The movie is produced by Innostorm Entertainment Group and will be one of the first movies distributed by Mammootty’s Playhouse

The Official Movie Website – http://www.ritumovie.com/
Catch the trailers here – http://joshcafe.ning.com/

Syamaprasad	Joshua Newtonn